The War divided families TWO VERY DIFFERENT SIDES

The War divided families TWO VERY DIFFERENT SIDES • Brothers fighting brothers Over four years of war • Over 600, 000 lives lost • Thousands more were wounded

• BORDER STATESDELAWARE, MARYLAND, KENTUCKY, AND MISSOURI • BITTERLY DIVIDED • SLAVERY IN ALL FOUR STATES • ALTHOUGH NOT AS WIDESPREAD AS IT WAS IN THE SOUTH DIVISION IN THE BORDER STATES

• HAD THE CLOSE TIES TO THENORTH AND SOUTH • VITAL TO THE STRATEGY OF THEUNION • MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY CONTROLLED MAJOR RIVERS. • DELAWARE WAS PHILADELPHIA CLOSE TO • MARYLAND CLOSE TO RICHMOND, ALSO WASHINGTON DC WAS WITHIN THE STATE

• LINCOLN KNEW HOW IMPORTANT THE BORDER STATES WERE • "I THINK TO LOSE KENTUCKY IS NEARLY THE SAME AS TO LOSE THE WHOLE GAME. . . WE WOULD AS WELL CONSENT TO SEPARATION AT ONCE, INCLUDING THESURRENDER OF THIS CAPITOL. " • LINCOLN WAS SUCCESSFUL ALTHOUGH MANY OF THE RESIDENTS STILL SUPPORTED THE CONFEDERACY

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES CONFEDERACY UNION (NORTH) (SOUTH) • LARGER POPULATION • EXCELLENT • MORE RESOURCES MILITARY LEADERS • STRONG FIGHTING SPIRIT • KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAND HOW TO DEFEND IT

GOALS OF WAR CONFEDERACY UNION (NORTH) • RESTORE UNION THE • SLAVERY DIVIDED (SOUTH) • BE AN INDEPENDENT NATION THE STATES, BUT WAS NOT THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE WAR • TIRE OUT THE NORTH • HOPED TO GET SUPPORT FROM ENGLAND FRANCE

"IF I COULD SAVE THE UNION WITHOUT FREEING ANY SLAVE I WOULD DO IT, AND IF I COULD SAVE IT BY FREEING ALL THE SLAVES I WOULD DO IT; AND IF I COULD SAVE IT BY FREEING SOME AND LEAVING OTHERS ALONE I WOULD ALSO DO THAT. " - ABRAHAM LINCOLN

STRATEGIES OF WAR CONFEDERACY UNION (NORTH) • ANACONDA PLAN • GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT • "SQUEEZE THE CONFEDERACY TO • BLOCKADE DEATH" SOUTH PORTS, AND CONTROL THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER • CAPTURE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA (CAPITOL) (SOUTH) • HOLD AS MUCH TERRITORY AS POSSIBLE AND KEEP THE UNION SOLDIERS OUT • SHOW DETERMINATION AND CONVINCE THE UNION THAT THE WAR WAS NOT WORTH THE COST

WHO WERE THEY? CONFEDERACY UNION (NORTH) (SOUTH) • CALLED YANKEES • CALLED REBELS • ABOUT 2, 100, 00 SOLDIERS • ABOUT 900, 000 SOLDERS

AMERICANS AGAINST AMERICANS • MEN OF ALL AGES RUSHED TO ENLIST • MOST WERE IN THEIR MID • TENS OF THOUSANDS WERE UNDER 18 • SOME WERE EVEN YOUNGER THAN 14 • THE UNION 20 S REFUSED TO LET AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR • THEY CHANGED THE POLICY TO OUTNUMBER THE SOUTH EVEN MORE THAN THEY DID ORIGINALLY, SO ABOUT 200, 000 SERVED.

HIGH HOPES BOTH SIDES THOUGHT THEY COULD WIN THE WAR QUICKLY. NEITHER EXPECTED IT TO LAST AS LONG AS IT DID.